Deep-Sky Dreams: Face-on spiral IC 342

Let’s visit another galaxy in the mostly stark constellation Camelopardalis — which, although it is unexciting to naked-eye viewers, is an area of sky that contains some interesting, if somewhat isolated, deep-sky objects.  IC 342 is a big barred spiral galaxy of morphological type SAB(rs)cd. It glows brightly at magnitude 9.1 but has a lowContinue reading “Deep-Sky Dreams: Face-on spiral IC 342”
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